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Kuimulang appears in Chinese mythology and literature, notably in the novels Journey to the West and Fengshen Yanyi. He is linked to a historical figure called Ma Wu , a general who hailed from the town of Huyang in Tanghe, located in the Henan province .
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Mount Buzhou (不周山 lit. "Unrevolving Mountain") was an ancient Chinese mythological mountain which, according to old texts, lay to the northwest of the Kunlun Mountains, in a location today referred to as the Pamir Mountains.
Juling Shen (simplified Chinese: 巨灵神; traditional Chinese: 巨靈神; pinyin: Jù Líng Shén; lit. 'god of giant spirit') is a gigantic river god in Chinese mythology. He is usually associated with the Yellow River.
In the 16th-century fantasy novel Journey to the West, the Buddha in a speech reveals that there are four spiritual primates who do not belong to any of the ten categories that all beings in the universe are classified under: the Intelligent Stone Monkey (靈明石猴), the Red-Buttock Baboon (赤尻馬猴), the Interconnected-Arm Gibbon, and the Six-Eared Macaque.
Shiji Niangniang (Chinese: 石磯娘娘; lit. 'Lady Rocky') is a character in the 16th-century Chinese novel, Fengshen Yanyi. [1] She was a 10,000-year-old demoness, originally a stone, born outside the heavens and the earth during the Chaos and Xuanhuang eras. [2] [3] [4] Shiji is worshipped as a deity in Chinese folk religion.
Yuan Ke (袁珂) (1916–2001) was a Chinese scholar, one of the most important specialists on Chinese mythology. [1] [2] His first important work was Zhongguo Gudai Shenhua, a ground-breaking volume on the topic first published in 1950. A second edition, revised and substantially expanded, appeared in 1957.